Power is back on in northwest Indiana, but life isn’t back to normal

The floors inside Gloria Davis’ home are warped and damaged after 10 days without power in the trailer park where she lives with her three kids and fiancé.

It’s been more than a week since her family was stuck in the dark with a now-patched hole in the roof from a fallen tree. Without air conditioning, the floor and drywall began to crack and warp in the sweltering summer heat.

After more than two weeks, electricity has been restored for nearly all of the 375,000 customers in northwest Indiana who lost power Aug. 11 following severe weather. It’s the largest outage in the history of NIPSCO, the area’s electric utility…

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